Dori the Flip House: week 14

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I learn to navigate through the business of flipping houses.  My latest flip house, Dori sports the 3 L’s in real estate, but will need more than a bit of creativity to make the house sellable. You can find more about this house and about my 4 previous flip houses here. *Blink* How did Friday happen?  Better yet, how did October happen?? The dining room floor is all repaired thankfully, but I still have yet to finish my own tasks in this tiny house.  I'm pretty sure the To Do list multiplies when it sees me pull into the driveway.

The big thing this week was the dining room floor.  Luckily, my contractor was able to jump in there and replace the sub-floor and repair the structure and my flooring guy installed a new floor on top.  It wasn't as bad as I was afraid of- I had visions of the entire structure being riddled with old termite damage or rotten away, but luckily it was just the areas of the sub-floor that we already knew about.  It cost extra to fix this right with repairing some questionable construction and replacing some insulation, but now I know that I'm not selling some dubious structure or handing a problem over to the future buyers.  Being a heartless flipper would be so much easier on the wallet.

  As far as my week, I painted more.  I painted trim, I painted doors, I cleaned a bit, I organized a bit, and I finally got started on tiling the kitchen backsplash.  It's about time!

  

Admittedly not my favorite backsplash that I've ever done, I'm actually quite partial to subway tile (like I did in my own kitchen), but I can't do that in every house- gotta switch it up!  This tile will definitely be a fun backdrop for the kitchen, though- I'm looking forward to styling/staging in here.

Now that pretty much every single thing in this little house is fixed or brand new, we'll be listing at the beginning of next week!!  Which means that a week from today will be a nice, long post with the REVEAL!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Dori the Flip House: week 13

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I learn to navigate through the business of flipping houses.  My latest flip house, Dori sports the 3 L’s in real estate, but will need more than a bit of creativity to make the house sellable. You can find more about this house and about my 4 previous flip houses here. A few steps forward and one huge step back.  I am now officially out of budget, time, and patience on this house.  I get overly dramatic when I'm stressed out apparently. (**please excuse the iphone pics- I once again forgot my real camera, but am telling myself this will make for much more dramatic reveal pictures in the end**)

Let's start with the steps forward.  The most visual one is now the fact that I had staging furniture moved in.  A little prematurely since I still have more painting to do, but it had to be done at some point, right?

As you can also see in the pic, the engineered floors in the living room and hallway are done!

And the bedrooms are all cozy and carpeted and almost done being painted.

And then we have the dining room.

The dining room is an addition off the back of the house and the only space not on a concrete slab.  This is the room that you get to through the kitchen and has the nice new slider.  And soon to be a nice new floor and subfloor as well.  Back in week one, I discovered old termite damage in other parts of the house.  I called in a company and had baits installed all around the house and repaired all the damage that I knew about.  Problem solved, right?  So naive.  This little hole in the upper right corner of the floor is a very big trouble maker.

In the dining room here, I was originally planning to save this wood floor.  I covered up the floor while I painted, got the space drywalled, and the baseboards got installed.  When I pulled up the paper last Friday I noticed that this little corner board had termite damage that I hadn't noticed previously.  I (stupidly) thought "no problem! my flooring guy can just patch the floor board and it'll be all better."  And so he cut out a piece to replace it and the damage abounded.  The more we investigated the more we realize that the problem was in at least 1/3 of this darn floor and since I have a conscience, I can't put a bandaid over this problem.  So, listing the house is getting pushed back and this floor and subfloor is being completely replaced.  I'm just crossing my fingers, and toes that the joists don't need to be replaced too, because that will really kill my budget.  Welcome to the joys of house flipping.  Trying to look at the bright side, though- this buys me some more time to finish painting #silverlining.

Dori the Flip House: week 12

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I learn to navigate through the business of flipping houses.  My latest flip house, Dori sports the 3 L’s in real estate, but will need more than a bit of creativity to make the house sellable. You can find more about this house and about my 4 previous flip houses here. Have you entered my giveaway yet?  I'll pause for a moment while you go do that.

Welcome back!  On to this week's update.

I'd be lying if I said this week was exciting in the least.  By the end of next week, however, everything should be just about set with the exception of a bit of painting, staging accessories, and final touches.  Only a few things happened this week

This week, the engineered wood floors in the living room and hallway are starting to get installed and hopefully will be all set by the end of today.  I'm using my go-to flooring guy once again.  After installing the wood floor at Clark myself, I know how to install them, but I also know that I move at a snails pace and I have to list this house sometime!  That's where pros come in.

Meanwhile outside, the garage got new siding on the back and a brand spankin new door that isn't all busted up.

As per my usual as of late, I've been painting.  And as per usual on these houses, I feel like the painting will never end.  I did finally settle on a toned down front door color (which compliments my custom shutters perfectly) and gave the old gal a modern spin on house numbers.  They may be my current favorite thing on this house and they're making me really want a silhouette machine so I can make stuff like this myself.

Aside from finishing up this flip in the next week or so (!!) I have several other fun things up my sleeve in the next few weeks!  Stay tuned!

Happy weekend!!